Charles Rangel is a crook!
Charles Rangel is a corrupt congressman!
Charles Rangel lacks honor!
In the end he continues to deny his wrong doing because his mind has become corroded with a dark arrogance. He feels no shame because his morality is a twisted cesspool of entitlement, greed, and self importance.
Rangel has been reduced to a pathetic creature, a caricature of the fat cat politician that only abides by his own warped rules.
But, the really sad and disgusting part of this whole thing are the Democrat congressmen that actually gave him applause.
TPM reports the House of Representatives voted 332 to 79 to censure Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) on Thursday for violations of the body's ethics laws.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) read the censure on the floor of the House immediately following the vote.
Today's vote brought an end to the investigation of the long serving New York Democrat, who was found to have violated 11 of the House ethics rules. The charges centered upon four issues: that Rangel used Congressional resources to raise money for an educational center bearing his name; that he failed to report taxable income on a rental villa in the Dominican Republic; the he filed inaccurate financial disclosure forms; and that he used a rent-controlled apartment in Harlem as a campaign office.
Several members from both parties spoke in support changing the punishment from censure to reprimand (For more on how these punishments have played out in the past, see here.)
And Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), a member of the ethics committee, proposed a motion to lessen the sanction from censure to reprimand that ultimately failed by a vote of 146-267. It had the support of 143 Democrats and three Republicans: Reps. Pete King (NY), Ron Paul (TX) and Don Young (AK).
More details here
Charles Rangel got off light only because the Dems control the House. But, a new day comes in January when the GOP takes over.
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